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A school governor broke truancy laws to take his child out of classesfor a family trip to Spain.
Paul Lawton, 42, was caught after his daughter Emma, 13, posted holiday snaps on Facebook, enraging other pupils’ parents.
MrLawton and his wife Emma, 33, each got
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BY Alice NewboldA 15-year-old schoolboy has died after being shot in the head on his family’s farm land in Cumbria.
Edward Gabbert, from Ulpha, Cumbria, died in hospital after the shooting, which happened late at night near to his home.
A 35-year-old man from Barrow-in-Furness has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter following the incident, after police were called at 11.17pm on Thursday.
He was one of two men with the schoolboy when the shooting happened, with an outbuilding around half a mile from the main property being cordoned off for police to investigate.
Neighbours told the Telegraph the shooting was thought to be a “tragic accident”.
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31 Mar 2013Edward, who was a Year 11 pupil at nearby Millom School, was taken to Salford Royal Infirmary with serious injuries and died with his parents by his side.
Another man present, aged in his 40s, was not injured and has not been arrested over the incident.
Both adults were given permission to shoot on the land by the owners, Edward’s parents Eleanor and Andrew Gabbert.
Sources confirmed they were not related to the schoolboy, and were not paid members of staff at the farm. It is understood the incident involved a shotgun.
A statement issued by Cumbria police said they were called to the scene at 11.17pm on Thursday, following reports of a 15-year-old boy with "serious injuries".
A spokeswoman said: "Police are supporting the family at this tragic time.”
A statement from Millom School said: "Millom School can confirm that one of our Year 11 pupils has been involved in an incident at his home."
Edward’s school friends have already paid tribute to him, while neighbours in Ulpha told the Telegraph the tight-knit community was waiting to find out what had happened.
Writing on a social networking website last night, one hailed him as one of the school’s “greatest characters”.
Another said: “Such a good friend gone. RIP mate, gone but never forgotten. “
Edward is survived by his mother Eleanor, father Andrew, brother Ian and sister Fiona.
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A divorcee who says she was "swept off her feet" by her "lying" husband who "stole" three quarters of a million pounds from their friends and relatives, is begging top judges to save her from financial ruin.
Faye Gale, 37, who had never used the accounts herself, was previously cleared of any dishonesty and described as a “complete innocent” regarding what her husband was up to.
David Gale used bank and Betfair accounts in her name to run a “Ponzi” scheme.
But a court found she was personally liable for making a “restitution" to a friend who had invested £350,000 with him - a ruling against which Mrs Gale is now appealing.
The mother-of-two told how she was “swept off her feet” by Mr Gale, a financial advisor 13 years her senior who had "appeared rich, successful and extravagant" when they met at Royal Ascot in 2004.
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21 Nov 2013But their seven-year marriage came to an abrupt end in 2011 when she realised Mr Gale was a "liar and a fraudster" who had squandered a £700,000 investment pot entrusted to him by their nearest and dearest on "disastrous" online football bets, the Court of Appeal heard.
The former mortgage broker left the family home in Great Bookham, Surrey, "almost immediately" after revealing what he had been doing, Mrs Gale said.
She later divorced him, but was left with debts to Kathleen O’Neil, a London-based television producer who was friends with the family.
Mrs Gale said her ex-husband's explanations of his fail-safe betting system was "all Greek" to her and she was completely taken in, just like investors who were lulled into a false sense of security by the "dividends" they regularly received.
She had never used the Betfair gambling site herself and her husband had never even told her the password, the court heard.
He had complete access to her finances, opening bank accounts in her name to which she never had access.
Describing her as a "palpably honest" witness, Judge David Donaldson QC said in March that both she and Mrs O'Neil had "suffered grievously" at Mr Gale's hands and it was a tragedy one of them had to lose the case.
Challenging the judge’s ruling that Mrs Gale must make "restitution" to Mrs O'Neil for most of her losses, Richard Devereux-Cooke QC, for Mrs Gale, said her ex-husband's scheming had torn apart her family and she was as much a victim of his dishonesty as those who trusted him with their money.
He told the Court of Appeal: "Mr Gale was never running a collective investment scheme at all - he was simply misusing or stealing the money.
“It is accepted that the wife had no real knowledge of what her former husband was doing.
"Mr David Gale, it was commonly agreed, was a fraudster who had used bank accounts and a betting account set up in his wife's name.
"She thought it was risk free, as did her father who lost £145,000. The wife was taken in. Her father was taken in, as were other members for the family."
The court heard Mr Gale, a former mortgage broker, had been banned from carrying on regulated investment activities by the Financial Services Authority in October 2005.
Despite the ban he had, for about three years, solicited "investments" on a large scale from in-laws, relations, friends and neighbours, telling all of them that his system was risk free.
His wife's grandfather was amongst his earliest investors.
The Court of Appeal judges reserved their decision on Mrs Gale's appeal until an unspecified later date.
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A man accused of murdering a family of four told a psychiatrist that "darkness" came over him as he carried out the brutal stabbings, a court has heard.
Anxiang Du, 54, is accused of knifing Manchester Metropolitan University lecturer Jifeng "Jeff" Ding, his wife Ge "Helen" Chui, and their two daughters, Xing "Nancy", 18, and Alice, 12, on April 29, 2011.
During his trial at Northampton Crown Court, which began last week, a jury of eight women and four men has heard that he allegedly carried out the stabbings following a long-running legal dispute after a business relationship turned sour.
After the killings at the family's home in Wootton, Northamptonshire, Du, who denies four counts of murder, fled to Morocco where he was eventually arrested and extradited back to the UK, the court has heard.
Today Professor Nigel Eastman, a forensic psychiatrist, told jurors he interviewed Du in prison in August last year after he was brought back to the UK to face four charges of murder.
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A couple from Salford are facing a £600,000 bill to the taxman after a tribunal found they were still UK residents despite moving to Portugal more than a decade ago.
Stephen and Pauline Rumbelow, multimillionaires who owned a grade 1 listed mansion and made a fortune in property development, escaped the country after Mrs Rumbelow suffered a breakdown.
The 57-year-old pair, who have three children, had hoped to spend their latter years leading "the easy life" in a villa they built for themselves in Silves, southern Portugal.
But a long-running dispute with the tax authorities has resulted in them facing a bill of almost £600,000 after a judge ruled that the farmhouse they continued to own remained "essentially a family home".
From lowly beginnings as an engineering apprentice straight from school, Mr Rumbelow – who described himself as a "hard hat man" – built a phenomenally successful building and property development business.
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17 Nov 2013The couple's energetic rise culminated in their purchase of the 16th-century Winnington Hall, near Northwich, which Mrs Rumbelow ran as a restaurant and conference centre – working so hard that she eventually suffered a breakdown.
That was the trigger for the couple's plan to "tidy up" their business affairs, escape the stress of it all and make a new life for themselves on the continent, Judge Jonathan Cannan told the First-Tier Tax Tribunal.
After briefly living in an unfurnished flat in Belgium – which was "not to their taste" – the couple built themselves a mansion called "Villa Rumba" in Silves, Portugal, intending to "lead the easy life" and settle down to enjoy the weather.
However, their idyll was disturbed when Revenue and Customs refused to accept that they were resident abroad in the tax years 2001-2005 and hit them with swingeing retrospective tax demands.
The Rumbelows, who lived at Yew Tree Farm, Crowton, before their departure, argued that they had intended to move permanently abroad when they boarded a Europe-bound train in April 2001.
After years of punishingly hard work to establish their fortune, they said they wanted to retire and hoped the move would benefit Mrs Rumbelow's health as well as 'improving their quality of life'.
They said they had only since returned to England as visitors to see friends and family – and never for more than the 90 days a year, the threshold then applied by the tax authorities for overseas residence.
However, dismissing the couple's appeal, Judge Cannan noted Mr Rumbelow's "deep suspicion" of the tax authorities and found that their departure had not marked "a distinct break" with the UK.
Their youngest daughter, Kayleigh, was only 15 when they headed abroad but had stayed behind in England. Although her mother "would have liked nothing better" than for her to go with them to Portugal, she did not want to leave Northwich and could not be forced to move against her will.
Noting the couple's close family links to Northwich, the judge said they had never sold Yew Tree Farm and were "not merely travellers" when they stayed there during their frequent trips back to England.
Although the couple protested that their intention to make their permanent home abroad "could not have been more distinct or clear", the judge said that Yew Tree Farm had "remained, essentially, a family home".
Mr Rumbelow had continued to be closely involved in winding down the couple's businesses. Although there had been some "loosening" of their social and family bonds with Northwich it was not "substantial" enough to make them non-UK residents.
The £600,000 figure is based on disputed income tax and capital gains tax from the years 2001 to 2005 for both Mr and Mrs Rumbelow.
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A Chinese entrepreneur “cold-bloodedly” murdered his business partner, the man's wife and his two daughters after their professional relationship turned sour, a court heard.
Anxiang Du, 54, is accused of stabbing to death Jifeng "Jeff"' Ding, a lecturer in polymer science at Manchester Metropolitan University, and his family to "avenge himself" after a long-running and acrimonious legal dispute between them left Du owing thousands of pounds.
The two families had first become involved with each other more than a decade earlier, when Du and his wife made friends with Mr Ding and his wife, going into business with them in 1999.
The business was successful and shops were opened in Gloucester, Coventry and Cheltenham.
But in April 2001 Mr and Mrs Du, both doctors of traditional Chinese medicine, were dismissed from the enterprise and in 2004 Du launched legal proceedings against the Dings over ownership of it.
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11 Nov 2013He was left with around £88,000 to pay in costs, which provided the motive for his murder of Mr Ding, his wife, Ge "Helen" Chui, and their two daughters, Xing "Nancy," 18, and Alice, 12, on April 29, 2011, prosecutors said.
Armed with a kitchen knife, Du had travelled to Northampton from his home in Coventry and “savagely” stabbed to death Mr and Mrs Ding, Northampton Crown Court was told.
William Harbage QC, prosecuting, said: "Not content with killing them, the mother and father, in the kitchen of their own home, he then went upstairs to find their two daughters, Nancy aged 18 and Alice aged 12, cowering in a bedroom.
"He cold-bloodedly stabbed them to death as well."
Each member of the family – described as "hard-working, decent people of Chinese origin" - sustained multiple stab wounds, jurors heard.
"Why did he do it?" Mr Harbage asked them. "The answer is quite simply revenge.
"The defendant Du and his wife and Mr and Mrs Ding used to be in business together.
"The business relationship turned sour.
"There followed a long running dispute lasting for 10 years involving protracted and acrimonious litigation in the civil courts for seven of those 10 years.
"Although Du won the first battle he lost the last and was left with a large sum of money to pay in costs, some £88,000.”
The day before the killings, Du had been served with an injunction to prevent him from dissipating his assets, Mr Harbage said.
In response, he made a plan and carried it out with “ruthless efficiency”, leaving a “farewell note” for his wife and son before setting off for the Dings’ home in Wootton, it was alleged.
"It was obvious to him that he had lost, he faced ruin, there was no other legitimate course of action for him to take to fight his case,” Mr Harbage went on
"And so he resorted to violence, to murder, in order to avenge himself of the people who had caused him such grief.
"He did so not just by killing them, Mr and Mrs Ding, but also by murdering their wholly innocent daughters with whom he had no grievance whatsoever.”
Post-mortem examinations found Mr Ding had been stabbed 23 times, Mrs Ding 13 times, Nancy 11 times and Alice four times.
After the “grotesque” killings Du fled to Morocco, the court heard.
He denies four counts of murder and prosecutors said he would claim he should only be convicted of manslaughter on the basis of either diminished responsibility or loss of control.
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A family of four were massacred in their own home on the day of the Royal Wedding in an act of cold-blooded revenge, a jury has heard.
University Lecturer Jeff Ding, 46, and his wife Helen, 47, were stabbed in the kitchen by former business partner Anxiang Du.
After killing the couple, Du went upstairs to find their two daughters Nancy, 18 and Alice, 12, who were cowering in a bedroom and also stabbed them to death, the jury heard.
Du had travelled to Northampton by train from his home in Coventry, via Birmingham, armed with a kitchen knife. He caught a bus to the family's home in Pioneer Close, Wootton, Northampton.
Opening the case to the jury of eight women and four men, Prosecutor William Herbage QC said: "This case is all about the brutal murder of an entire family of four people. I have to warn you that some of the details are rather graphic, bloody and shocking in nature.
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11 Nov 2013"This defendant on the day of the Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton, travelled to Northampton from his home in Coventry via Birmingham armed with a kitchen knife and savagely stabbed to death firstly the two people, Mr and Mrs Ding, with whom he had been having a long running legal dispute.
"Not content with killing them, the mother and father in the kitchen of their own home, he then went upstairs to find their two daughters, Nancy aged 18 and Alice aged 12, cowering in a bedroom. He coldbloodedly stabbed them to death as well.
"Each sustained many wounds, some of which had penetrated the chest cavity, causing fatal damage to the heart and lungs."
The prosecutor said the motive for the murders was "simply revenge" after the business relationship between Du and Mr and Mrs Ding turned sour.
There had been a long-running dispute lasting for ten years, with "protracted and acrimonious litigation in the civil courts." Du won the first battle, but lost the last and was left with a large sum of money to pay in costs amounting to £88,000.
On 24 April 2011, he was served with an injunction preventing him of disposing of his assets.
Mr Harbidge went on: "It was obvious to him that he had lost, he faced ruin. There was no other legitimate course of action for him to take to fight his case. And so he resorted to violence, to murder in order to avenge himself of the people who had caused him such grief.
"He did so not just by killing them, Mr and Mrs Ding, but also by murdering their wholly innocent daughters, with whom he had no grievance whatsoever.
"Mr Du made a plan and carried it out with ruthless efficiency. Having massacred the Ding family, he stole their car and went looking for another man Paul Delaney who had been involved in the civil litigation and lived elsewhere in Northamptonshire. Fortunately for M Delaney, Du did not find him."
Mr Harbage said Du then fled the country, travelling down to London by car then by coach to Paris and down through France and Spain to Algeciras, where he took a boat to Morocco. Du remained there until he was brought back to the UK earlier this year.
The prosecutor said: "There is no disputing this case that Du is the man responsible for these four tragic deaths.
"There is no dispute that unlawfully killed all four members of the Ding family. Indeed it was obvious from an early stage in the investigation that it was Du that did it."
He said it was obvious that Du had committed the crime because there was CCTV evidence of Du's movements and forensic evidence, including fingerprints found in blood at the scene.
The jury was told that Du will claim that he should not be convicted of murder, but manslaughter on the basis of either diminished responsibility or loss of control.
Mr Harbage said: "Suffice to say, the prosecution does not accept that this is anything other than the clearest case of murder with the obvious motive of revenge and any claim otherwise by Du is simply a blatant and transparent attempt to avoid his full responsibility for these grotesque killings."
Anxiang Du, 54, from Coventry, appeared at Northampton Crown Court, wearing a dark coloured suit, and no tie.
He was aided by a Mandarin interpreter and pleaded not guilty to four counts of murdering the family on April 29 2011.
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A second blonde girl has been seized from a gypsy family amid fears she is a kidnap victim.
The case of little Maria
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